Castelli

Castelli lies at the feet of a stately and massive mountain called Camicia, keeping its secular balance upon a high hill made of clay. A few houses and less people; but Castelli is famous all over the world as the center of the ceramic, the place where a small group of people, in ancient and dark times, found a way to plan a collective project and think up its future. We ignore when this all began, maybe during the Etrurian domination, or during Roman times, maybe later, during the Middle Age thanks to a Benedectine Monastery: we don?t have any proof. But we perfectly know what happened later; a lot of certain proves of the graetness of the Reinassance ceramics can explain how Castelli made this project work.The great exhibition ?Castelli and its ceramics during the sixteenth century?, made in 1989, made this wonderful human and cultural adventure famous all over the world. But actually Castelli produced its best art during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, when some excellent artisans, from superb artisan families as Grue and Gentile, started to produce ceramics for all Europe; that?s why some pieces of our ceramics are kept in all the most important Museums of the world.